Cristiano Ronaldo scores and is sent off in win over Barcelona

Full time: Barcelona 1-3 Real Madrid

Real Madrid are strong favourites to win the Super Cup after this terrific win. It was an ill-tempered game at times and will be remembered for an eccentric contribution from the substitute Ronaldo, who became the first man in football history to be sent off for having a six-pack. Sort of. The second leg is on Wednesday at the Bernabeu. Thanks for your company, night!

GOAL! Barcelona 1-3 Real Madrid (Asensio 90)

What a goal this is! Real shred Barcelona again on the counter-attack. Vazquez runs 50 yards into space and angles a pass towards Asensio on the edge of the box. He pushes the ball in front of him and then, with his second touch, smashes a rising left-footed shot past Ter Stegen at the near post. That was right off the sweet spot.

86 min “These referees are supposed to be top-of-their-profession experts,” says Sean Roe. “How do they keep falling for dives like Suarez’s when we amateurs can all (a) predict it and (b) spot it when it happens? Also Ronaldo is a covfefe. Insanely talented but a covfefe nonetheless.”

85 min It’s kicking off all over the pitch now. Vidal is trying to pick a fight with Casemiro, I’m not sure why. A minute ago Carvajal was being shoved by Busquets. This is turning into a proper pre-season unfriendly. I’ve lost count of the yellow cards. There have been at least nine.

82 min Ronaldo was clear on goal when Umtiti challenged him and, while I’m not sure it was a penalty, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a dive. Umtiti’s shoulder barge put him off balance, which is why he fell over. I think; who knows any more. He reacted to the red card by pushing the referee in the back, which might get him in trouble.

GOAL! Barcelona 1-2 Real Madrid (Ronaldo 80)

Pick that out! Ronaldo has scored a belter on the counter-attack. The superb Isco led the break, easing the ball out left to Ronaldo. He ran at Pique, cut inside and screamed the ball into the far top corner from 18 yards. He celebrates by whipping off his top to show the kind of six-pack that shames us all. He looks like a weightlifter.

78 min “A bloke at the Astoria diner where I’m watching this opined that Barcelona ‘are weak without Neymar’ and while there’s clearly more to it than just this, he’s not wrong!” says Phil Podolsky. “ A third attacker who’s the best player in the world-in-waiting, with a ridiculous goal rate, who can create something out of nothing when Messi has a day off. Look, late capitalism is a farce and all that but PSG kind of knew what they’re doing.”

GOAL! Barcelona 1-1 Real Madrid (Messi 77 pen)

It’s a tricky one. Messi’s deflected shot came to Suarez by the left touchline. He was going nowhere but Navas was committed and Suarez went over him. He certainly made the most of it, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t contact.

71 min Isco and Ronaldo combine brilliantly to free Marcelo, whose fierce shot from a tight angle is chested away by Ter Stegen. Moments later, Ronaldo has a goal wrongly disallowed for offside. It was a tight call but he was just onside.

62 min Isco opens the game up with a great reverse pass to Kroos, who helps in on further to Ronaldo. He is one against one with Pique, who does well to ignore 474 consecutive stepovers and block Ronaldo’s eventual shot.

55 min Jordi Alba makes his second goal-saving contribution of the night. This one was even better than the first.Benzema destroyed Pique with a series of stepovers on the left of the box. He slid the ball across the face of goal to Carvajal, whose sidefoot was cleared off the line brilliantly by the sliding Alba.